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R-Shief 75 aimed, among other things, at mining and visualising Twitter content
and the public sphere of Facebook to study the language distribution and uses.
Increasing the quantity of content doesn’t imply enhancing the quality however.
Twits are limited by their very nature of short messages or microblogs. Content
of social media is characterised by its informal style, although more institutional
pages and networks are created and contributing then to giving more formal
status to social media, mainly by the fact of the presence of government
entities and organisations. A huge number of international organisations
like the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International
Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Canada’s International
Development Research Centre (IDRC) are maintaining Facebook pages and
Twitter accounts, contributing then to enhancing style and credibility of such
tools. Since Obama’s first campaign, almost all candidates of the developed and
developing world play the social media card and try to reach their voters, or
more precisely the Facebookers among their potential voters.
Conclusion
We have signals that social uprising, political and social unrest are making
social media one of preferred tools to communicate, mobilize, demonstrate
and voice the concerns of the population around the world. MENA countries
showed a serious increase in the number of users of social media that are
mainly communicating in their mother tongue, despite their interface
preferences and the software offers. More research is still needed if we want
to better document this phenomenon and build on it to enhance the quality
of the content and, more important, the quality of the citizens’ participation
and engagement in the cyberspace, leading to more interaction and more
benefits from the knowledge society.
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